The Spitzer Extragalactic Representative Volume Survey (SERVS): Survey Definition and Goals

Mauduit, J.-C.; Lacy, M.; Farrah, D.; Surace, J. A.; Jarvis, M.; Oliver, S.; Maraston, C.; Vaccari, M.; Marchetti, L.; Zeimann, G.; Gonzáles-Solares, E. A.; Pforr, J.; Petric, A. O.; Henriques, B.; Thomas, P. A.; Afonso, J.; Rettura, A.; Wilson, G.; Falder, J. T.; Geach, J. E.; Huynh, M.; Norris, R. P.; Seymour, N.; Richards, G. T.; Stanford, S. A.; Alexander, D. M.; Becker, R. H.; Best, P. N.; Bizzocchi, L.; Bonfield, D.; Castro-Rodríguez, N.; Cava, A.; Chapman, S.; Christopher, N.; Clements, D. L.; Covone, G.; Dubois, N.; Dunlop, J. S.; Dyke, E.; Edge, A.; Ferguson, H. C.; Foucaud, S.; Franceschini, A.; Gal, R. R.; Grant, J. K.; Grossi, M.; Hatziminaoglou, E.; Hickey, S.; Hodge, J. A.; Huang, J.-S.; Ivison, R. J.; Kim, M.; LeFevre, O.; Lehnert, M.; Lonsdale, C. J.; Lubin, L. M.; McLure, R. J.; Messias, H.; Martínez-Sansigre, A.; Mortier, A. M. J.; Nielsen, D. M.; Ouchi, M.; Parish, G.; Pérez-Fournon, I.; Pierre, M.; Rawlings, S.; Readhead, A.; Ridgway, S. E.; Rigopoulou, D.; Romer, A. K.; Rosebloom, I. G.; Rottgering, H. J. A.; Rowan-Robinson, M.; Sajina, A.; Simpson, C. J.; Smail, I.; Squires, G. K.; Stevens, J. A.; Taylor, R.; Trichas, M.; Urrutia, T.; van Kampen, E.; Verma, A.; Xu, C. K.
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Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Volume 124, issue 917, pp.714-736

Fecha de publicación:
7
2012
Número de autores
84
Número de autores del IAC
2
Número de citas
159
Número de citas referidas
140
Descripción
We present the Spitzer Extragalactic Representative Volume Survey (SERVS), an 18 deg2 medium-deep survey at 3.6 and 4.5 μm with the postcryogenic Spitzer Space Telescope to ≈2 mJy (AB=23.1) depth of five highly observed astronomical fields (ELAIS-N1, ELAIS-S1, Lockman Hole, Chandra Deep Field South, and XMM-LSS). SERVS is designed to enable the study of galaxy evolution as a function of environment from z˜5 to the present day and is the first extragalactic survey that is both large enough and deep enough to put rare objects such as luminous quasars and galaxy clusters at z≳1 into their cosmological context. SERVS is designed to overlap with several key surveys at optical, near- through far-infrared, submillimeter, and radio wavelengths to provide an unprecedented view of the formation and evolution of massive galaxies. In this article, we discuss the SERVS survey design, the data processing flow from image reduction and mosaicking to catalogs, and coverage of ancillary data from other surveys in the SERVS fields. We also highlight a variety of early science results from the survey.
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